The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03
NO. 38.

naval service during our late war arc
now in the afternoon or evening Of life.
With some OF you it is two o'clock, three
o'clock, four o'clock six O'Clock, and II
will soon be sundowa. III you were OF
age when the war broke out you are now
at least forty eight. Many of you havo
passed into the sixties and seventies;
therefore it is appropriate tn IT l hold two
great lights for your illumination-the
example of Chris tian Admirals cousecrat-
ed to Christ and their country Admiral
Foote and Admiral Farragut. Had tho
Christian religion been cowardly thing
they would have had nothing TO do with
it. In it's faith they lived and died. In
our Brooklyn Navy-yard Admiral
Foote held prayer meetings and con-
Quoted revival on INC reoeiVlng
ship North Carolina, and on Sabbath, far
out at sea, followed tho chaplain with
religious exhortation. In early life on
board the sloop- -of-war Natchez impressed
by the words of a sailor, he gavo his spare
time for two weeks to tho Bible, and, at
the end of that, declared openly; Hence
forth, under all circumstances 1 will act
for God" His last words, while dying at
the Astor House, New York, were: 81
thank God for all his goodness to me. He
has been very good to me-" When he en-
tered Heaven he did not have to run a
blockade, for it was amid the cheers of a
great welcome. The other Christian Ad.
miral will be honored until the day when
tho fires from above shall hck up the
waters from beneath, and there shall be
no more sea.
Oh, while old oceans breast
Bears a white sail,
And Gods stars to rest
Guide through the gale,
Men will him ne er forget
Old hearts Of oak,
Farragut, Farragut,
Thunderbolt strolel
According to his own statement, Farra,
gut was very loose in his morals in early
manhood, and practiced all kinds Of sin.
One day he was called into the cabin Of
his father, who was shipmaster. His
father said:
'David, what are you going to be, any
how2"
He answered:
Il am going to follow tho sea"
t'Follow the sea-" said the father, ''and
be kicked about the world and die in
foreign hospital2'
''No,' said David, II am going to com.
mand, like you"
''No," said the father, ga boy OF your
habits will never command any thing"
and his father burst into tears and left
the cabin.
It
on a new life. Captain Pennington, an
honored elder of this church, was with
him in most of his battles and had his in
innate friendship, and he confirms, what
l had heard elsewhere, that Farragut was
good and Christian. In every great crisis
of life he asked and obtained the
divine direction When IN Mobile
bay, the monitor Tecumseh sunk from
torpedo, and the great war-ship Brooklyn,
that waste lead the squadron, turned back,
he said he was at loss to know whether
to advance or retreat, and he says:
Il prayed: %, God who created man
and gave him reason, direct what 20 do.
Shall go onl And voice commanded
me: Go on And went on"
Was there ever a moro touching Chris
tian letter than that which he wrote 10
his wife from his flagship Hartfordl
MY DEAREST Wife, write and leave this
/ letter for you. / going into Mobile Bay IN
! the morning IL God is my leader and hope he
| is, and in him place my trust. II he thinlks Il
! is the proper place for me to die I am ready To
submit to his Will in that as In all other things.
God bless and preserve you, my darling, and
my dear boy, IL any thing should happen TO me.
May his blessings rest upon you, and your
dear mother, and all your sisters and their
children.
Cheerful to the end, he said, on board
the Tallapoos a, in the last voyage he ever
| took:
at would be woll if died now, in har
ness"
The sublime Episcopal service for the
dead was never more appropriately read
| than over his cashet, and well did All the
| forts of New York harbor thunder as his
| body was brought to our wharf, and well
| did the minute guns sound and the bells
| toll as in procession having IN its ranks
| the President of the United States and
his Cabinet, and the mighty men Of land
and sea, the old Admiral was carried
amid hundreds Of thousands of uncov-
| cred heads on Broadway, and laid on his
| pillow of dust in beautiful WoodlaWn,
| September 80, amid the pomp Of our au-
! tumnal forests.
| Ye veterans who fought and sailed un
der him, take your Admraps God and
| Christ for your God and Christ After a
| few more conflicts you, too will rest.
For the few remaining fights with SIN and
death and hell make ready. st lip your
vessel for the fray; hang the sheet chains
| over the side; send down the topgallant
masts: barricade the wheel; rig in the
| flying jib- boom; steer straight for tho
| shining shore, and hear the shout Of the
| Great Commander Of earth and Heaven
| as he CRIES from the shrouds:
'To him that overcometh, will ] give 10
| eat of the tree Of life which is in the
midst of the Paradise Of God"